Dolls will never go out of fashion as a child’s toy, but in horror literature, they reached their peak somewhere in the 1980s. There was no quicker way to convey unease by illustrating a creepy doll on a book cover, though on many occasions a doll wasn’t even a crucial part of the story. These toys were typically put on display as a visual shortcut for childhood terror and the loss of innocence. The two books in this edition of Buried in a Book, however, are not misleading their readers; they both deliver on their promise of doll horror.
Dell’s Twilight: Where Darkness Begins and Bantam’s Dark Forces were published around the same time. Despite each series having supernatural leanings, there was little overlap in content. One exception, albeit a meager one, is Twilight’s The Haunted Dollhouse (1984) and Dark Force’s The Doll (1983). Both books...
Dell’s Twilight: Where Darkness Begins and Bantam’s Dark Forces were published around the same time. Despite each series having supernatural leanings, there was little overlap in content. One exception, albeit a meager one, is Twilight’s The Haunted Dollhouse (1984) and Dark Force’s The Doll (1983). Both books...
- 1/5/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
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